police chiefs association which represents sixty three large police forces in the country those of the largest ones have submitted a proposal to congress that requires wireless providers to record and store information about americans private text messages for at least two years that is to say they want every text message from every user stored for at least two years now i don't know about you but i text a lot so imagine a stockpile of text messages that wireless providers will be forced to store that's two trillion text messages that were sent in the u.s. last year all lone so put aside the ethical and moral aspects for a minute is this type of data retention even possible here to break down all of this and more as our web producer and your blake straight from the barbershop you know you don't text me that much anymore though i don't text you that much when you usually g. chat so i thought if my far enough in that so that's a horse of a whole other color if you want to start talking about that kind of surveillance but you know this is so something that's worth talking about today are